Old and Brown: America in 50 Years

In 50 years, the United States of America will look like a very different place.

New projections by the U.S. Census Bureau predict non-Hispanic white people will be a minority by 2043 due mostly to the doubling of the Hispanic and Asian populations. Races we now consider minorities, which comprise 37 percent of the population today, are projected to comprise 57 percent of the population by 2060.

“The next half century marks key points in continuing trends — the U.S. will become a plurality nation, where the non-Hispanic white population remains the largest single group, but no group is in the majority,” the Census Bureau’s acting director, Thomas L. Mesenbourg, said in a statement.